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The worlds fist glider flight not by Lilienthal !!!



 
 
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Old March 7th 15, 07:50 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default The worlds fist glider flight not by Lilienthal !!!

On Thursday, June 1, 2000 at 9:00:00 AM UTC+2, Jan Lustrup wrote:
Did you know that the worlds first flight was not by Otto Lilienthal!

It happened in 1825 at Narvestad,Lund in Norway.
The constructor and pilot was a norwegain named Hans Andreas Berentsen.
The glider flight covered several hundred meters.
He built it with stealwire and clouth used for sailboats.
His glider was kept in a farmbarn-loft until 1936 when it was sadly
destroyed along with the rest of the farm.
It is said that the butterflies inspired him to build the airplane.

It is unknown what the glid ratio / min.sink was.
There is a large infomation sign at Lund that tells more in detail about
the flight.

This all happened 66 years before Otto Lilienthal's first flight!!!!!

Not bad for the old Viking

Greetings from "The land of the midnight sun",

Jan Lustrup "
Kvernfallveien 12
4340 Bryne
Norway


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